Facts. Weird ones. Five of ‘em.

1. I lived on St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, twice. The first time, when I was a little younger than five. Then, my mom got pregnant with my sister. In the vicinity of Hurricane Hugo (not a nice hurricane), we moved to New Hampshire. Then, a little while later, we moved back. Between the two times, I spent a fair amount of my childhood more or less out of the country. It influenced how I looked at life from then on, when we moved back. Occasionally, it still does.

2. I am afraid of the dark, except for the times when I love it. I am afraid of it when my imagination tells me “And when you walk through this closet, this is where a little onion-eyed girl with too-sharp teeth comes out and hugs you, and her mouth opens too too wide as she grins up at you,” and then I wind up turning on all the lights in the house.

3. When I met Neil Gaiman, I stammered a moment, and then we had a discussion about fountain pens, and how it was a shame that the good ones had been made a long, long time ago, and how we needed to investigate Necromancy for pens. I no longer remember the exact words. I very much doubt he does. But there you go.

4. Nails drive me nuts. Cuticle nails, I mean. All four of our cats have meticulously tended to nails, because for some reason, I obsess over it. Obsessive-compulsive? Probably. Creepy, probably. Sigh.

5. I have lived in Minnesota for a grand total of eight years now, (between two different times here, four years or so each) and this is the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere. It is very strange. And nice. (Does this count as a different fact than number one? I don’t know. I’m not doing very good at this. pete = frazzled.)

And I nominate dearest Kristine, and dearest Lori, and they must go thee hither and thus, shall they list five things & there shall be much rejoycing.

The tagging bit is what gives me the hives about internet meme things. I would have to follow the entire course of this entire thing across the entirety of the internet, to make sure I didn’t meme the same person twice. Heck, I’m barely online enough right now to check my electronic mailings! Poo!

I still have to do my eights, and now I have to do five weird things about me. Should be very hard really.

Things have been nutty. When I can get some time away from clingy, sick toddler with nasty snot, and husband who has decided that he actually wants to spend time with me right now, I’ll blog about all sorts of stuff. There’s a lot of things going on.

Belly button transmitter. I wonder if the show Probe (or Search, I have trouble remembering which was which. First the movie came out with one name, then the TV show came out with a different name because there was a problem with using the movie name or some such nonsense) used something like that. That was a really cool show. Thanks for reminding me. I wonder if they have it on DVD. Hugh O’Brien was one of the actors. They were like an Impossible Mission team with really cool microized gadgets. I really enjoyed that show, short lived as it was.